sigh quotes

   She's private to herself, and best of knowledge Whom she will make so happy as to sigh for.

- Francis Beaumont
c.1607  The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act1.

   Suddenlya puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still nightthe first sigh of the east on my face.

- Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra Connor
  'Youth'.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Lee Frost
  'The Road Not Taken'.

   I struck the board, and cried,'No more. I will abroad.' What? shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines and life are free; free as the road, Loose as the wind, as large as store.

- George Herbert
'The Collar', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, not spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep and know why.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Spring and Fall: to a young child'.

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

- Herman Hupfeld
  'As Time Goes By', sung by Dooley Wilson in the film Casablanca (1943).

I often sigh still for the dark downward and vegetating kingdom of the fish and reptile.

- RobertTraill Spence,Jr Lowell
  'For the Union Dead'.

Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th'eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

- Alexander Pope
  An Essay on Man, epistle 4, l.1^4.

But when I plead, she bids me play my part, And when I weep, she says tears are but water: And when I sigh, she says I know the art, And when I wail, she turns herself to laughter.

- Edmund Spenser
  Amoretti, sonnet18.

   The Bishop gave vent to a long-drawn sigh. 'Did it ever occur to you to wonder why God created women?' he asked.'It's the one thing that tempts me at times to doubt His infinite goodness and wisdom.'

- Mervyn Wall
  The Unfortunate Fursey.

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

-John Wesley
  A Collection of Psalms and Hymns,'Divine Love'.

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'Into theTwilight', stanza1. Collected inTheWind Amongthe Reeds (1899).